Lt. Surge's Secret Plan (Gym Challenge 107)

Lt. Surge's Secret Plan (Japanese: マチスの秘策 Matis's Secret Plan) is a Trainer card. It is part of the Gym Challenge expansion.

Trainer
Lt. Surge's Secret Plan
マチスの秘策 Matis's Secret Plan

Illus. Ken Sugimori
English expansion Gym Challenge
Rarity
English card no. 107/132
Japanese expansion Leaders' Stadium
Japanese Rarity

Card text
All prints
You can't have more than 1 ACE SPEC card in your deck.
Team Plasma
Team Plasma
You can't have more than 1 ACE SPEC card in your deck.
FLARE
You can't have more than 1 card with the same name in your deck. If a card would go to the discard pile, put it in the Lost Zone instead.
TAG TEAM
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Put 1 card from your hand face down onto your Bench. (You can't play this card if your Bench is full.) Treat that card as a Basic Pokémon as long as it's face down. Flip the card if either player ever needs to know what it is in order to use an attack, a Pokémon Power, or a Trainer card. Flip the card if it ever uses an attack or Pokémon Power, evolves, retreats, is damaged by an attack, or is otherwise affected by an attack. At any time during your turn, you may flip the card over. When you flip that card over, if it isn't a Basic Pokémon, discard it and all cards attached to it.
 Do Nothing  
At the beginning of your turn, flip a coin. If heads, you can do nothing during your turn. If tails, your opponent can do nothing during his or her next turn.
 Do Nothing  
At the beginning of your turn, flip a coin. If heads, you can do nothing during your turn. If tails, your opponent can do nothing during his or her next turn.


Trivia

The card was intended to have some strategic use in the game. However, a long series of rulings rendered the card nearly unplayable due to a large number of unintended side effects.

Origin

Lt. Surge is a Gym Leader in Kanto.


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